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They should make a folding GPU

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Couldn't they take something like a GTX 260 or GTX 285 core and use a small memory bandwidth and a small amount of video memory to make the card cheaper, but still have a ton of shader processors to fold like mad?

Is this something a vendor (EVGA......) could do? Do they get the cards with the complete PCB? Can they just get some graphics chips and then build the PCB and memory and such around it?

No? That would be sweeet, though!


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could see this happening soon, Evga Nivida GTF Series LOL
It might be a small market compared to how many people there are who fold, but lots of those people buy 4 or more cards at a time. Imagine a folding gpu with the same gpus as gtx295 but for like half the price... That would be very nice, I am sure it would catch on.
oh yeah they should. on a side note, your rigs name is athena, kinda like this girl i know who is hot as hell, kinda like how sick your rig is!
Very few people run just Folding cards.... there's no market for it. Besides, faster products come out all the time. Even if they took the time to do some, it would be obsolete in 6-8 months.
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Very few people run just Folding cards.... there's no market for it. Besides, faster products come out all the time. Even if they took the time to do some, it would be obsolete in 6-8 months.

BUT, wouldn't it be sweet?
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I dunno... It's a great idea in principle, but i don't see it being worth the investment for gfx card companies.

Now if only ATI gfx card folding performance scaled in comparison the nvidia cards with respect to the number of sp's...
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If they did end up producing them, they should sell them with dummy plugs and PCI-E risers. BOOM.
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